Seekers of the Forbidden

During the Great Crusade, it was primarily the warriors of the Thousand Sons and the Word Bearers Legions who were chosen to quell the threats of the occult and the arcane. Looking at the pattern dictated by history, it appears they were frequently found to be adjacent to areas of such need. Knowing what we now know, it is suspiciously fortuitous that they should have made themselves available for so many similarly aligned actions of Compliance, a trend which was only exacerbated by their reuniting with their Primarchs, although of?course this was part of the Emperor's template for these two Legions. Certainly, there were inherent dangers in prolonged exposure to the darkest aspects of humanity among the stars and in allowing these two Legions to accumulate occult knowledge, the taint of which may have contributed to their eventual downfall.

在大遠征時候，帝國主要選擇千子和懷言者軍團的戰(zhàn)士們?nèi)テ较ⅲP于亞空間的）密教活動和玄奧現(xiàn)象。從史料上描述的案例來看，他們似乎頻繁地被發(fā)現(xiàn)前往有此類需求的地區(qū)。從我們已知的內(nèi)容來看，有著這樣一個可疑的巧合：這兩個軍團參加過很多次類似的鎮(zhèn)壓行動，而且在他們與原體重聚之后，這種趨勢只是愈演愈烈，不過這的確也是帝皇為這兩個軍團制定的模板的一部分。當然，這兩個軍團持續(xù)暴露在星辰間人類最黑暗的方面，而且能夠積累起詭秘知識，這種情況存在著固有的危險，而且這一過程中所造成的腐化也將會導致他們最后的墮落。

The Thousand Sons in particular seem to have experienced combat against a disproportionate number of suspected sorcerous' threats and almost without exception made haste to undertake conquests of worlds known to contain libraries, crypts and other repositories of?arcane tomes. Though part of their role was, nominally, to safely dispose of such grimoires, it was an open secret that they cloistered these relics of humanity's forgotten knowledge within their own libraries in Tizca. Some among the Primarchs are also said to have grown resentful of?Magnus’?pursuits in the realms of proscribed knowledge, and of his Legion's propensity to disrupt the course of?conquests in their desire to attain it. This became a recurring source of?friction, notably so when Magnus reportedly almost came to blows with his brother Russ in the Ark Reach Cluster and again when Corax chastised the Thousand Sons Legion for interfering in the Riohbia Campaign.

尤其是千子軍團，他們似乎對抗過數(shù)量多到不成比例的可疑巫術(shù)威脅，而且對于那些因保有圖書館、地穴和其他奧秘典籍資料庫，千子幾乎會無一例外地匆忙征服。盡管千子名義上的職責是安全地處置這些魔法手稿，但他們將這些關于人類被遺忘知識的遺產(chǎn)館藏于提茲卡城中軍團自己的圖書館內(nèi)也是一件公開的秘密。據(jù)說某些原體也越來越厭惡馬格努斯在禁忌知識領域的追求，他們對于千子軍團為了獲取這些知識而對征服過程造成的干擾也感到厭煩。這種情緒滋生出了爭執(zhí)，當馬格努斯在方舟邊境群星和他的兄弟魯斯幾乎爆發(fā)沖突，以及克拉克斯指責千子軍團過度干涉Riohbia戰(zhàn)役時，這種情況變得尤為明顯。

History shows us that the lore and esoterica which Magnus the Red and Lorgar Aurelian claimed during the Great Crusade would grow to be their most potent weapon. In retrospect it seems obvious that to these two Primarchs the Great Crusade came to be more a wondrous expedition into the accumulated religions, occultism and arcana of?Mankind than a war for conquest.

但歷史也告訴我們：赤紅馬格努斯和珞珈 奧雷利安所尋求的密典和傳說將會發(fā)展為他們最強大的武器。事后來看，很明顯對這兩位原體而言，大遠征開始成為一場探索人類積累起來的宗教、神秘學（知識）和奧秘的美妙冒險。

Given what we know now, it appears unwise that our primary response to threatening phenomena which we scarcely understood, was to employ the Word Bearers and Thousand Sons Legions to contain it, for though they may have destroyed the cultures responsible for arcane evils, they also took the knowledge of those people by looting the ruins of their cities, ransacking their libraries, picking clean their sacred shrines and exhuming the secrets of?their burial sites. The Crimson King and the Aurelian were seeking forbidden knowledge from the very beginning. Though it is assumed that at least originally their intent was not malicious, the blame lies at our own door for not intervening； for not expounding to them the supernatural nature of that which they would come to consort with, and for not warning them of the damnation which would surely follow.

從我們目前所知的來看，將派出懷言者和千子兩個軍團作為解決我們根本不理解的威脅現(xiàn)象的主要對策明顯是不明智的，因為盡管他們毀滅了那些利用奧術(shù)為惡的文明，但他們?nèi)酝ㄟ^劫掠城市廢墟、洗劫圖書館、搜索神廟和發(fā)掘埋葬起來的秘密等方式獲取了這些人的知識。猩紅之王和奧雷利安從一開始便在尋覓禁忌的學識，雖然我們假定至少他們最初的意圖并無惡意，但未曾干預他們也是我們應被指責的過錯：我們本該告訴他們所經(jīng)歷事務的超自然本質(zhì)，并且警告他們那必將到來的詛咒。

Had we but seen the signs that these noble Legions were acting with ulterior agendas at the end, we may have been able to influence the directions they took. And when He had the chance, could not the Emperor have acted more compassionately to correct the transgressions o f?His wayward sons than to incite the bitter humiliations of Monarchia and Nikaea? Perhaps had it been so, these Legions, which were so learned in the arcane and charged with the passion for a greater calling, could have raised the Imperium up with the power of their wisdom. Tragically, the seeds laid by the Primarchs of the XVth and XVIIth Legions would instead come to terrible fruition.

但是，如果我們見證過這些高貴的阿斯塔特軍團最終那別有用心的行徑，我們或許能夠影響他們的走向。不過就算我們有了這個機會，帝皇就會更具同情心地糾正他任性兒子們的過錯，而非在完美之城和尼凱亞讓他們感受到痛苦的屈辱嗎？倘若他真能糾正這些過失的話，那些飽學奧秘且對于偉大號召擁有著激情的軍團也許能夠用自己的智慧令帝國崛起。但可悲的是，第十五和十七軍團原體所播下的種子最終結(jié)出的是恐怖的惡果。